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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: String to Variable Name Mapping
Date: 1996/04/13
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organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1996-04-13T00:00:00+00:00
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Britt asks

"For example, if I have the following declarations,

  Int_Var : Integer;
  Str_Var : String (1..32) := "Int_Var";

can I somehow use the contents of Str_Var to make an assignment to
Int_Var?"

No, and if you think about it a bit (visibility issues, safety issues,
runtime efficiency issues -- any one would be sufficient), such a feature
is out of the question in Ada. Some very dynamic languages like SNOBOL-4
and LISP have this feature.